Re: Online enabling of checksums

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>>At least this patch was posted on the lists before commit, unlike many
>>others from many different people. And AFAIK there has never been such
>>a
>>rule.

The rules cannot possibly anticipate every situation or subtlety. The
letter of the law is a slightly distinct thing to its spirit.

> The more debatable a decision is, the more important it IMO becomes to give people a chance to object. Don't think
thereneeds to be a hard rule to always announce an intent to commit.
 

+1

Andres' remarks need to be seen in the context of the past couple of
weeks, and in the context of this being a relatively high risk patch
that was submitted quite late in the cycle.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan